The 12 Week Year #031

When you focus on 12-weeks as if it’s your whole year, it changes your thinking, it changes your actions and it changes your results.

How we think about our lives and how we plan are critical to what we can accomplish. In this episode, Brian Buffini interviews Brian Moran, President and Founder of The 12 Week Year.

Brian Moran shares the concept of being the CEO of your life. Whether you apply this to your business to earn more money or be more successful, whether you apply it to your personal life to build your marriage or lose weight, there are certain disciplines and principles required to make it all work. Moran shares 5 disciplines and 3 principles you can use to increase your productivity in any area of your life.

Inspirational quotes from today’s interview: (all from Brian Moran)

“Most people plan on an annual cycle and their plan becomes overwhelming.”

“Let’s be good at a few things instead of mediocre at many.”

“If you don’t know what your vision is and what matters most, you’re going to get more efficient with the stuff that doesn’t matter.”

“Being CEO of your life means you’re living with intention.”

“It’s not about working harder or longer but it’s about working different and it starts with being focused.”

“What do you want your life to look like? What would great look like, not good?”

“Within the 12-week plan, less is more. One goal is better than two. Two goals are better than three.”

“Going it alone, you have about a 10 percent chance of being successful. With peer support, it’s 80 percent.”